CommentaryThe composition for the photograph of Manik Bagh Palace was made after an image by Eckart Muthesius and an unknown Indian photographer (1933) that, like the architect’s photomontages of the building made in the same year, was clearly orchestrated to obscure the Palace’s unfashionably sloping roof.

The composition for the photograph of Manik Bagh Palace was made after an image by Eckart Muthesius and an unknown Indian photographer (1933) that, like the architect’s photomontages of the building made in the same year, was clearly orchestrated to obscure the Palace’s unfashionably sloping roof.